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Kaitlin Durbin

News Public Safety Reporter

Kaitlin Durbin covers public safety for The Gazette. The Ohio native joined the newspaper's staff in 2016. She previously worked in Mansfield, Ohio.
You can reach Durbin at Kaitlin.durbin@gazette.com or by phone at 719-636-0362. Follow her on Twitter at @njKaitlinDurbin.

Officer Matthew Fleming, left, and his fellow graduating officers listen to Mayor John Suthers speech during the 67th Colorado Springs Police Department commencement ceremony that took place at Village Seven Presbyterian Church on Friday January 12, 2018 in Colorado Springs. The class was the largest one thus far for the department. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette)

The recent ruling and settlement of a lawsuit alleging the Colorado Springs Police Department's physical aptitude test discriminated against female officers over the age of 40 has brought into question fitness...

Officers from the 67th graduating class of Colorado Springs Police Department sit and listen during the commencement ceremony that took place at Village Seven Presbyterian Church on Friday January 12, 2018 in Colorado Springs. The class was the largest one thus far for the department. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette)

Two of 12 female police officers who sued the city over a physical aptitude test they said discriminated against women and harmed their careers clarified Thursday they're not against fitness requirements for...

An autopsy has confirmed what police suspected: The December death of Dion Pollard was not a homicide.

Pollard, 44, died accidentally of acute cocaine and alcohol intoxication, the El Paso County Coroner's...

Colorado Springs Fire Department firefighter Mindie Verplank, left, checks the results of a urine test as Colorado Springs Police officer Sean Collins and clinical social worker Lori Montano talk with a patient Thursday, July 16, 2015, in a room at AspenPointe. The trio make up the Community Response Team and work together on mental health crisis calls. Verplank is also a nurse. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette

A woman accused of fatally stabbing a man earlier this week in the Stratmoor Hills area said the two had been fighting over her affair with another man, according to court records.

Ta Tyana King, 22, told El...

A photo illustration of David whose last name has been withheld has to register for a child molestation charge that his fiance, Priscilla, said he got in Missouri for being with a girl he started dating when he was 17 and she was 14. After they broke up, her parents filed charges. More than 10 years later, he was removed from the sex offender registry. (Photo by Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette).

Heavy Rescue crews, for example, were able to break through the ice in places and...

A glitch in the Colorado Springs Police Department's electronic case filing system, which may have withheld reports in roughly 3,000 drug investigations across El Paso and Teller counties from 2013 through Dec. 2016, actually seemed to have no effect. Gazette file photo.

A glitch in the Colorado Springs Police Department's electronic case filing system, which may have withheld reports in roughly 3,000 drug investigations across El Paso and Teller counties from 2013 through Dec....

CSPD detectives were on the scene of a shooting in the 3800 block of Soft Breeze Way, where authorities say three people were shot a party early Sunday morning. Photo by Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette